Topic: DN! Grand Rapids Campaign

Many of you have already signed a petition to get Democracy Now! (http://www.democracynow.org/) on both 88.1 FM WYCE radio and WGVU TV Channel 35 in Grand Rapids. This media alert is the last push in this campaign to get the award winning show with Amy Goodman on the local airwaves in our community.

December 07, 2007
The Grand Rapids Press
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2007/12/comcast_changes_your_channels.html

GRAND RAPIDS -- Some Comcast subscribers may be seeing black next month when a handful of their channels move out of their regular lineup.

On Jan. 15, the Grand Rapids area's largest cable provider will shuttle its public access, education and government broadcasts from analog cable channels 24-28 to its digital system somewhere around channel 900.

It's a move akin to sending these locally produced channels to "Siberia," potentially eliminating thousands of viewers, one local media producer said.

Thursday, August 16, 2007
GRIID Media Alert
http://www.mediamouse.org/griid/reports.php

The Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID) has just completed a 6-month study of all news stories in the Grand Rapids Press that deal with Latin America. The study found that the Press used almost exclusively Associated Press (AP) stories and most of the AP stories used by the GR Press had portions of the original stories omitted.